[linux-audio-user] The best distro for music creation

[Dave Phillips]

Sean Edwards wrote:

>Have you tried ecasound?  I guarantee your machine is
>powerful enough to use ecasound for audio work
>
>--- Dave Phillips <dlphillips at woh.rr.com> wrote:
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>>  I have two machines I use for music (and
>>everything else too). My 
>>laptop is a PII 366 HP Omnibook 4150, not a very
>>powerful machine at 
>>all. It isn't suitable for serious audio work, 
>>    
>>
Hi Sean:

  Yes, I've used ecasound on this machine. The problem isn't really the 
software. The audio chipset is a consumer-grade CS4232 that really isn't 
up to the task. I also have PDAudioCF card that works great, but it's 
digital-in only.

  Btw, the CS4232 works fine with JACK in simplex mode, but I get xruns 
aplenty when the device is in full duplex mode. Not so usable for 
multitracking.

  Really, it's underpowered hardware if I want to do what I mean by 
serious audio work. It's okay with non-realtime stuff though.

  I agree that ecasound is excellent Linux audio software.

Best,

dp